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	Title	Year	Director	IMDb	Plot	Links
	13 Moons	2002	Alexandre Rockwell	5.6	Can you solve the mystery of the 13 moons?	IMDB; DVD Empire
	16 Years Of Alcohol	2003	Richard Jobson		"Trainspotting meets A Clockwork Orange" - Daily Star Frankie (Kevin McKidd; Trainspotting, Dog Soldiers, De-Lovely) is an intelligent but angry man who reacts to the pain that life has dealt him with vicious fits of brutality. After being raised by a philandering, alcoholic father and spending his formative years leading a gang on the mean streets of Edinburgh, he discovers solace in an unfamiliar form - love. The affection of Mary (Susan Lynch; From Hell, Waking Ned Devine) forces Frankie to open up for the first time in his life. At a crossroads, Frankie looks inside himself in one last effort to deal with his demons.	DVD Empire
	200 Motels	1971	Tony Palmer; Charles Swenson	5.2	"Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring...	IMDB
	21 Grams	2003	Alejandro González Iñárritu; Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu	7.8	A freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician (Penn), a grieving mother (Watts) and a born-again ex-con (Del Toro).	IMDB; DVD Empire; Amazon UK
	24 Hour Party People	2002	Michael Winterbottom	7.3	In almost a full circle of role-playing, Steve Coogan apparently based his Alan Partridge character on Tony Wilson several years ago. Now he is playing the man himself.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	25th Hour	2002	Spike Lee	7.6	Cornered by the DEA, Montgomery Brogan (Norton) reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.	IMDB; DVD Empire; Amazon UK
	The 39 Steps	1935	Alfred Hitchcock	8.0	A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent, and is soon finding himself in one jam after another.	IMDB; DVD Empire; Amazon UK
	8 Mile	2002	Curtis Hanson	6.8	A rap version of "Saturday Night Fever." B-Rabbit, a wannabe rapper from the wrong side of Detroit's 8 Mile, has problems: he dumps his girlfriend when she tells him she's pregnant; to save money to make a demo tape, he moves into his alcoholic mom's trailer; his job's a dead end, and he's just choked at the local head-to-head rap contest. Things improve when he meets Alex - an aspiring model headed for New York - and a fast-talking pal promises to set up the demo. Then new setbacks: Alex isn't faithful, mom rejects him, rifts surface with his friends, and he's mugged by rivals. Everything hinges on the next rap showdown at the club. Can B-Rabbit pull truth out of his cap?	IMDB; DVD Empire; All Movie Guide
	8MM 2	2005	J.S. Cardone	4.3	An American diplomat and his fiancée venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in Budapest, Hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a porno video taken of them with a prostitute.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Aaltra	2004	Benoît Delépine; Gustave de Kervern	6.9	Mr Vives is not fond of the lazy farmer's hand who keeps blocking the road with his large harvester...	IMDB
	Abduction	1975	Joseph Zito	4.6	Daughter of a wealthy family is kidnapped by left wing terrorists.	IMDB
	Across 110th Street	1972	Barry Shear	6.6	Two New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Action vérité	1994	François Ozon	6.6	Innocence gives way to experience. Two girls and two boys, probably about 14 or 15 years old, play a game of truth or dare...	IMDB
	Adaptation.	2002	Spike Jonze		A lovelorn screenwriter turns to his less talented twin brother for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere.	IMDB
	The Afternoon of a Torturer	2001	Lucian Pintilie	8.4	This movie was made after a novel written by Doina Jela. In the opening of the premiere night in Romania, Doina Jela told the viewers a short but painful story. "German kids were made to see the horrors of the jewish camps from Auschwitz, to remember and learn, she said. This is why they are where they are, and we (the Romanians) are where we are. You should leave this room remembering that the man, Franz Tandara, is filled with true remorse and pain. It would be the biggest mistake to condemn him just for beign courageous enough to confess..." I left the room with the exact these thoughts and the wish to see the movie again. It hurts, but then again truth hurts. IMDB usercomment cors from Buchares	IMDB
	Agnes of God	1985	Norman Jewison	6.4	When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Ali	2001	Michael Mann	6.3	A biography of sports legend, Muhammad Ali, from his early days to his days in the ring.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	All the Kind Strangers	1974	Burt Kennedy	6.2	A couple traveling through a backwoods area are held by a a group of orphans who want them to become their parents. Unfortunately, the kids have a habit of killing adults who refuse that particular honor.	IMDB
	Along Came a Spider	2001	Lee Tamahori	6.1	A congressman's daughter under Secret Service protection is kidnapped from a private school by an insider who calls Det. Alex Cross, sucking him into the case even though he's recovering from the loss of his partner.	IMDB
	Amélie	2001	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	8.7	Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	American Beauty	1999	Sam Mendes	8.5	A man tells his tale of how he turned his miserable life around and turned everyone else's upside down as a result.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	American Crime	2004	Dan Mintz	4.7	A young smalltown reporter, Jessie St. Claire, begins investigating a killer stalking his victims making video tapes...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	American History X	1998	Tony Kaye	8.4	A former neo-nazi skinhead (Norton) tries to prevent his younger brother (Furlong) from going down the same wrong path that he did.	IMDB; All Movie Guide; DVD Empire; Amazon UK
	American Splendor	2003	Shari Springer Berman; Robert Pulcini		The documentary directing team of Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman makes their narrative feature debut with the biographical comedy drama American Splendor . Harvey Pekar ( Paul Giamatti ) is a comic book writer inspired by the work of his friend Robert Crumb ( James Urbaniak ). Pekar writes his comics about the sad monotony of everyday life, based on his own life in Cleveland, OH, working as a file clerk at a veteran's hospital and spending his time reading books and listening to jazz. He meets up with Joyce Brabner ( Hope Davis ) and they enjoy a depressive relationship together. The filmmakers employ a combination of live-action film, video, and animation, including narration and commentary from the real-life Harvey Pekar . The screenplay was based on Pekar 's comic book series American Splendor , which he has been writing since 1976 on Dark Horse Comics, and the 1994 book-length comic Our Cancer Year , written by Pekar and Brabner . American Splendor won the Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic Competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival . — Andrea LeVasseur	IMDB
	Anatomy Of Hell	2004	Catherine Breillat	4.4	A lonely and dejected woman (Amira Casar) learns that only when all inhibitions are cast aside will she be able to truly understand the truth about how men see women in this erotically charged exploration of sexuality from controversial director Catherine Breillat. Teetering on the edge of overwhelming ennui, the woman pays a man (Rocco Siffredi) to join her for a daring, four-day exploration of sexuality in which both reject all convention and smash all boundaries while locked away from society in an isolated estate. Only when the man and woman confront the most unspeakable aspects of their sexuality will they have a pure understanding of how the sexes view one another. — Jason Buchanan	IMDB; All Movie Guide
	El Ángel exterminador	1962	Luis Buñuel		After: a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room... and...	IMDB
	Apt Pupil	1998	Bryan Singer	6.4	A boy blackmails his neighbour after suspecting him to be a Nazi war criminal.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Aro Tolbukhin	2002	Isaac-Pierre Racine; Agustín Villaronga	6.9		IMDB
	Assassins	1995	Richard Donner	5.7	Robert Rath (Sylvester Stallone) is a seasoned hitman who just wants out of the business with no back talk...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Asylum	2005	David Mackenzie	6.2	A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.	IMDB
	At Play in the Fields of the Lord	1991	Hector Babenco	6.4	Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians...	IMDB
	The Atrocity Exhibition	2000	Jonathan Weiss	7.7		IMDB
	The Aviator	2004	Martin Scorsese	7.8	A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career, from the late 1920's to the mid-1940's.	IMDB
	Bad Boys II	2003	Michael Bay		Two loose-cannon narcotics cops investigate the flow of Ecstacy into Florida.	IMDB
	Bad Education	2004	Pedro Almodóvar	7.4		IMDB
	Bad Santa	2003	Terry Zwigoff		A miserable conman and his pint size partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper, only to rob department stores on Christmas Eve but run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid.	IMDB
	Baise-moi	2000	Coralie; Virginie Despentes		Two young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men - and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences.	IMDB
	Bandits	2001	Barry Levinson	6.6	Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back	1989	Joe Finley	4.0	In a final and epic battle in the thrilling sequel to the now classic "Barbarian Queen", Althalia, leads...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Batman Begins	2005	Christopher Nolan	8.3	A new restart of the "Batman" franchise under the helm of "Memento" Director Chris Nolan and more in tone with the early "Batman: Year One" style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra's Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organised crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armoured suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan 'The Scarecrow' Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	The Beautiful Country	2004	Hans Petter Moland	7.2	Consequences of America's involvement in the Vietnam war.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	A Beautiful Mind	2001	Ron Howard	7.8	After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Before Sunrise	1995	Richard Linklater	7.8	A French grad student named Celine (Julie Delpy) meets an American boy named Jesse (Ethan Hawke) on the Budapest-Vienna train...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Being John Malkovich	1999	Spike Jonze		A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of the movie star, John Malkovich.	IMDB
	The Believer	2001	Henry Bean	7.3	A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic worldview. Based on the true story of an American Nazi Party leader in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish.	IMDB
	Belle de jour	1967	Luis Buñuel	7.6	Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him...	IMDB
	The Belly of an Architect	1987	Peter Greenaway	6.7	An American architect arrives in Italy, supervising an expedition for a French architect, Boullée, who is famous for his oval structures...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Bent	1997	Sean Mathias	7.1	Max is gay and as such is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime. He tries to deny...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Les Biches	1968	Claude Chabrol	7.1	Frédérique is a rich and beautiful woman who picks up a female street artist called "Why". It is December and they go to her villa in Saint Tropez...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	The Bicycle Thief	1948	Vittorio De Sica	8.3	A man and his son search for a stolen bicycle vital for his job.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Big Bad Mama	1974	Steve Carver	5.3	Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Big Fish	2003	Tim Burton	8.0	The story is about a son (William Bloom) trying to learn more about his dying father (Albert Finney) by reliving stories and myths his father told him about himself.	IMDB; DVD Empire; All Movie Guide; Amazon UK
	The Big Lebowski	1998	Joel Coen	7.9	"Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.	IMDB; All Movie Guide; DVD Empire; Amazon UK
	The Big Racket	1976	Enzo G. Castellari	7.4	Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles against hoodlums terrorising a sleepy Italian village, extorting cash from the locals.	IMDB
	Big Trouble in Little China	1986	John Carpenter	6.8	An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Birth	2004	Jonathan Glazer	6.0	A woman (Nicole Kidman) becomes convinced that a ten year old boy is the reincarnation of her dead husband.	IMDB; DVD Empire; All Movie Guide; Amazon UK
	Black Caesar	1973	Larry Cohen	6.3	Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	The Black Godfather	1974	John Evans	3.0	J.J., a rising star in the black crime scene, is in the process of consolidating his power over the neighborhood...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Black Mama, White Mama	1972	Eddie Romero	4.7	When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Black Samurai	1977	Al Adamson	3.1	Millionaire's girlfriend is kidnapped by drug-dealing, voodoo-worshiping ring that sells women into slavery. He tries to get her back.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Blood Of The Poet	1930	Jean Cocteau		A factory chimney starts to collapse. A young poet in a room sketching a series of faces is shocked when the mouth of one of the faces comes alive...	IMDB
	Blow	2001	Ted Demme	7.1	The story of George Jung, the man who established the American cocaine market in the 1970's.	IMDB; All Movie Guide; DVD Empire; Amazon UK
	Blow Out	1981	Brian De Palma	7.0	A soundman accidentally records the evidence that proves a car "accident" was murder, and consequently finds himself in danger.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Body Double	1984	Brian De Palma	6.4	Jake comes home to find his girlfriend with another man and has to find a new place. In between his acting workshops and his job in a vampire B-movie...	IMDB
	Les Bonnes Femmes	1960	Claude Chabrol	7.4	Ginette, Rita, Jacqueline and Jane try to find fulfillment and love in their lives. Rita has a fiancé...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Boogie Nights	1997	Paul Thomas Anderson	7.6	The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the 1970s and 1980s.	IMDB; DVD Empire; All Movie Guide; Amazon UK
	The Boondock Saints	1999	Troy Duffy		Fraternal twins set out to rid Boston of the evil men operating there while being tracked down by an FBI agent.	IMDB
	Le Boucher	1970	Claude Chabrol	7.7	Butcher Popaul meets schoolteacher Helene at a marriage in a small rural French village. They become friends...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Bound	1996	Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski	7.4	Corky, a tough female ex con and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend Caeser.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	The Bourne Identity	2002	Doug Liman	7.4	A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and without memory, then races to elude assassins and recover from amnesia.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	The Bourne Supremacy	2004	Paul Greengrass	7.4	When Jason Bourne is framed for a botched CIA operation he is forced to take up his former life as a trained assassin to survive.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Box 507	2002	Enrique Urbizu	7.0	Revenge Revealed. In a quaint town along Spain's wealthy Costa del Sol, a band of professionals plan the robbery of a small bank managed by the respectable middle-aged Modesto (Antonio Resines). Using his wife as a hostage, the thieves force him inside the bank vault while they make off with the valuables. Battered and dazed and waiting for rescue, Modesto stumbles on a safety deposit box that could hold the answers to the mysterious death of his daughter seven years earlier. his investigation leads him into an intricate web of corruption and foul play while his desire for vengeance provokes violent responses from the police and government officials determined to keep secrets buried. Box 507 is a gripping, unpredictable crime thriller full of intrigue and style in the best tradition of Chinatown and the works of Hitchcock.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Boxing Helena	1993	Jennifer Chambers Lynch	3.8	An obsessed doctor captures a former girlfriend, and cuts off her arms and legs.	IMDB
	Il Branco	1994	Marco Risi	6.7		IMDB
	Bright Young Things	2003	Stephen Fry	6.8	Sex! Scandal! Celebrity! Some things never change. This sweeping portrait of a fast, furious, and decadent era not unlike our own follows the exploits of a group of young aristocrats whom the tabloid press follow slavishly and refer to as "bright young things." BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS is at once a satire, a farce, and a romance, that provides a hilarious look at a society dancing on the edge of a volcano.	IMDB; DVD Empire; All Movie Guide
	Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia	1974	Sam Peckinpah	7.1	A family scandal causes a wealthy and powerful Mexican rancher to make the pronouncement--'Bring me...	IMDB; DVD Empire; All Movie Guide; Amazon UK
	Broken Flowers	2005	Jim Jarmusch	7.4	As the devoutly single Don Johnston (Murray) is dumped by his latest girlfriend (Delpy), he receives a anonymous pink letter informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. The situation causes Don to examine his relationships with women instead of moving on to the next one, and he embarks on a cross-country search for his old flames who might possess clues to the mystery at hand.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	The Brothers Grimm	2005	Terry Gilliam	5.9	Will and Jake Grimm are travelling con-artists who encounter a genuine fairy-tale curse which requires genuine courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	The Brown Bunny	2003	Vincent Gallo		Professional Motorcycle Racer Bud Clay heads from New Hampshire to California to race again. Along the way he meets some girls.	IMDB
	Bubble	2005	Steven Soderbergh	6.8	Residents of a small town in Ohio puzzle out the details of a murder which took place at the local toy factory.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Buddy Boy	1999	Mark Hanlon	5.9	An introvert relieves the tedium of caring for his invalid mother by spying on his neighbor.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Buffalo Soldiers	2001	Gregor Jordan		A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.	IMDB
	Bullet Boy	2004	Saul Dibb	6.9	Ricky (played by Ashley Walters, aka So Solid Crew's Asher D) is just out of a young offenders' institute, heading home to Hackney and determined to go straight. Instead, he heads straight for trouble when he becomes involved in a street confrontation, siding with his best friend Wisdom (Leon Black) against a local rude boy. The trouble escalates into a series of tit for tat incidents that threaten to spiral out of control. Ricky's 12-year-old brother Curtis (Luke Fraser), hero-worships Ricky, though he appears smart enough to know he doesn't want to follow his example. Yet, despite the stern warnings from his mother (Claire Perkins) and support from her friends in the community, might Ricky's bad boy allure be too attractive for Curtis to resist?	IMDB
	Bully	2001	Larry Clark	6.9	Based on a true story. Naive teenagers plot to murder one of their own, who has been too much of a bully to them.	IMDB; DVD Empire; All Movie Guide; Amazon UK
	Bunny Lake Is Missing	1965	Otto Preminger	7.0	A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.	IMDB; All Movie Guide; DVD Empire; Amazon UK
	The Butterfly Effect	2004	Eric Bress; J. Mackye Gruber	7.5		IMDB
	Buyu	2004	Orhan Oguz	3.4	This movie isn't excellently good but it is OK .i like the theme however it would have been better if dialogs had been written in more effective way (sorry to say that despite having been announced as a horror movie, some inappropriate scenes and dialogs made people laugh so much !)and more talented actors and actress had been chosen.mass media paid much more attention to this movie and it's back ground scenes.it was mentioned that there were some interesting bad lucking events took place which i think it didn't make sense at all . there was also fire took place in gala of movie. it may have done deliberately to make a good advertisement.who knows? imdb usercomment	IMDB